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How To Get YAH-56 Gunship Without Attacting It

Go to the second procince and go to the Allied base. Once there you will find a small hill behind it. Climb it and wait if you wait long enough you will discover that you are right in the gunship's path of servalence.

Gun Kick

After you kill an enemy they will drop their gun. After they drop it walk up to it and press Square it will send the gun flying and sometimes into enemies.

Fun With The Mafia

First, hijack a car outside the mafia garage and
put a C4 on it. Now, sell the car to the mafia
and run after you are on the other side of the
road detonate it. Then, the building explodes and
Russians run around yelling and shooting you.

Huge Explosions

In the second province, find Sinuiji Harbor. One
of the buildings in the far left has seven
explosive barrels all stacked. Not too far from
them are a lot more explosives. Move as many
explosives as desired to the original stack and
shoot it to make a huge explosion.
In the first province at Ichon, there are a few
sets of nukes underground. Get in a helicopter and
shoot a couple of missiles to blow them up and see
a huge shockwave. Note: You must first complete
the mission where you must blow up the nukes on
top of them.

Double Car Bomb

Put a some C4 on the hood of your car, before you
do the "Drive a flaming vehicle" trick. Find
something to drive your flaming car into (gates,
towers, enemies, cars, etc.). Press L1 to jump out
of the car while it is moving. Wait until it
explodes from the flames, then detonate the C4.

Drive A Flaming Vehicle

Enable the "Infinite health" code and shoot the
vehicle until it starts to burn. Jump in and drive
off. Alternately, get into the car and drive it
into something until its health gets under 20. As
soon as this happens, press Select and enable the
"Infinite health" code. Note: This trick does not
work on helicopters. They will only bounce around
on the ground when you try to take off.

YAH-56 Gunship

The YAH-56 Gunship is the most powerful helicopter
in the game; it is armed with rapid-fire 30mm
cannon (grenade launcher), anti-air missiles,
anti-tank missiles, and dumb-fire rockets. You
must have an anti-armor rifle and a RPG or anti
tank rocket. Grenades work somewhat, but are not
recommended. You cannot use an anti air. Find one
flying (try the North Korean Allied MASH, when you
complete the second ACE contract you will "unlock"
this). Once you are there, find a YAH-56 Gunship
with the binoculars. Then, go to it and make sure
it is over flat land. Take out your RPG or your
anti tank rocket and shoot above it. It will fly
down slightly. Then, take out your anti armor
rifle and shoot the pilot (located the back seat
of the helicopter). If you cannot see him through
the glass, shoot under the cockpit. Once he is
dead, you will have about $25, 000 depleted and
your helicopter should land on the ground safely.
Try again if it falls on its side or something
else happens. Do not be afraid of the tail rotor.
If it is half way in a rock, it does not effect
it. Note: This strategy can be used with any
helicopter.
To get the YAH-56 Gunship easier, get a standard
sniper rifle and shoot the bottom. If this does
not kill the pilot, the chopper will lower
somewhat. Walk in front of the chopper, then shoot
the front seat and the pilot will die.
To find a YAH-56 Gunship, go to the second
province, then go to the Mafia garage. To the left
of the front of the garage is a challenge marked
with the "$" symbol. Take the challenge, but
instead of flying to the goal, do some recon and
learn where all the A.T.A. missile launchers are
and destroy them in any way possible. Next, fly to
the nuclear power plant. Instead of taking out all
the people, fly to the gunship and take it. You
now have your own flying tank. Note: If you lose
your disguise, North Koreans will get in your
gunship, start shooting at you, and force you to
blow it up.

Safe Number Card Capture

Use the following trick to get a number card
captured for the full bounty and avoid losing
money from Anti-Air Armor shooting down your
vehicle or an enemy tank accidentally killing your
target. Do an aerial recon, Get a N.K Scout
helicopter and get disguised as a N.K. Fly over
the area that the number card is located to do
recon on where the Anti-Air Armor, enemy tanks,
and APCs are located. Once you noted where they
are, you can now execute your plan by taking out
the Anti-Air first, then the enemy tanks and APCs.
Be careful with rockets -- do not fire too close
to the number card. Land in a safe place, take
down the number card, and call for extraction.

Free Medivac

To skip out on paying the $10,000 when you warp to
the Medivac, save the game. Load the game and you
will appear at the Medivac, but not have to pay
the $10,000.

Helicopter Winch

Pick up a fully packed car and take it to the
fight for more firepower. The soldier in the
turret will shoot on or off the winch at any
enemies that he sees. Try using the YAH-56 Gunship
and the Mafia Technical (GL) Delivery for this.
Additionally, use the winch to pick up some C4.
You can now drop it off or throw it anywhere
desired, then fly to a save location to detonate
it. However, you cannot fly too far away from it.

Faster Shooting With The YAH-56 Gunship

This trick woks with any vehicle that has multiple
weapons. While holding R1 to shoot, press R2
rapidly to change weapons. The faster you change
weapons, the faster you will shoot.

Flying Cars

Get any helicopter and lower the winch and put it
on a car (civilian cars recommended). You can fly
it almost anywhere, toss it in the water, or crash
it into a building.

Helicopter Winch

Pick up a fully packed car and take it to the
fight for more firepower. The soldier in the
turret will shoot on or off the winch at any
enemies that he sees. Try using the YAH-56 Gunship
and the Mafia Technical (GL) Delivery for this.
Additionally, use the winch to pick up some C4.
You can now drop it off or throw it anywhere
desired, then fly to a save location to detonate
it. However, you cannot fly too far away from it.
Take a powerful helicopter, such as the Allies
UH-60. Find any car or object that is metal. Drop
down the winch and pick up the car. This might
require a few attempts. When you have the car on
your magnet, you can drop it on the roof of
something and watch it drive off; or go as high as
possible, drop the car, and try beating it to the
ground.

Alarms

Blow up the alarm. If the enemies sound the alarm,
do not run up to the alarm to turn it off. Just
blow it up. They already know that you are there.

Ride In Helicopter

You can ride in a helicopter such as a UH 60 or
any other helicopter that has guns that you can
man. First, get a UH 60 then get about three South
Korean ROKA soldiers. These are the only ones that
will fly the helicopter. Get them all in the
helicopter then fly to some enemies. Get out and
get on a gun. Usually one of the soldiers will get
in and fly the helicopter. You can now ride and
shoot down on the enemies. Note: Once in the air
you will not be able to get out unless your
helicopter is shot down or you somehow land and
hit the ground. Also, this only works in the North
province.

Helicopter On Ace Contracts

Note: This trick requires a sniper rifle is
required. Immediately after you are dropped off,
take out your sniper rifle and shoot the pilot of
the helicopter that dropped you off. If done at
the correct moment, the helicopter will fall with
barely any damage done to it. Note: This is easier
with the "Infinite health" and "All factions
neutral" cheats enabled. If you do not have a
sniper rifle, call in for one and shoot the pilot
of that helicopter. Successfully complete all the
steps and it should work.

Godzilla Reference

After you capture or kill the Ace Of Hearts (Chul
Kang), look at the news briefs scrolling across
the bottom of the screen during the news
broadcast. It will eventually say "Tokyo, Japan:
Scientists investigate huge, mysterious footprints
that have appeared along the coasts."

Easy Money

Hijack some cars from the North Koreans and line
them up so that they are all close together. The
bigger they are, the more money you will get. For
example, line up a group of Sungri Scouts. Take a
C4 charge on the car that is in the middle. Blow
it up and a chain reaction will blow up all the
cars and give you a major cash boost. You can also
steal cars and sell them to the Mafia at their
garage by Mafia HQ. Each car is worth a different
amount of money.
Use the "Fly NK helicopters" trick to get a free
helicopter from the Russian Mafia by the garage
where you can sell cars. Look on the map and there
will be a "$" icon just east of the Allied Nation
headquarters (not the MASH, where you receive AN
missions from). Fly there to find a burning wreck
of a AN Hummer. Land so that you can quickly jump
back into the helicopter. Walk up the wreck and
press Triangle when it says "Examine". It will
give you the challenge of moving the wreck over
100 meters in thirty seconds without explosives.
Take careful note of the distance that it says.
Accept and quickly jump back in the helicopter.
Use the winch (or grapple) to latch onto the
wreck. Then, fly the wreck so that it is only a
few meters past what the distance goal was. Wait
for time to run out. The next time you go back, it
will ask you to beat your own distance. As long as
you stayed close to the distance goal, it will be
extremely easy to accomplish this with the
helicopter. Repeat the trick to get around $40,000
each time.

The Godfather Reference

When you do the Mafia mission "Playing The Odds",
you will walk into Mafia HQ and hear Sergei and
Josef talking. Eventually Sergei will mention
Marlon Brando and The Godfather movie.

Stuck Helicopters And Cars

Do not worry about helicopter glitches. Sometimes
your evac helicopter will get stuck in the ground
out or diagonal on a tree. Just hit it into place
with a melee attack. The same thing works for
tipping most cars back onto their wheels.

Get A $4088 Dollar Mafia Md-530 Helicopter

Instead of wasting $97,090 dollars just for the mafia md-530 helicopter just buy a russian supply drop for $4088 dollars and when you buy it, throw the smoke grenade. The Mafia md-530 will come, just go under it and press Triangle (this will take some practice but you will save so much money when you get it).

Helicopter Hijack

You can hijack almost any helicopter if that
faction's mood towards you is neutral or lower.

Fun Cash

Get a helecopter with a winch and fly to any
North Korean city. Fly low to the ground with
the winch lowered and pick up N.K. vehicles.
Then drop them on top of a tall building, and
they will drive off the top. Repeat until the
car is destroyed and you'll get $ for destroying
a North Korean vehicle.

Fun Helicopter Ride

There is a way to have your land vehicle winched
while you're inside. First, you take your
vehicle to a flat area. Then, order a weak car
(jaju recommended). Shoot the weak car while
it's still winched, until it's destroyed. Then,
quickly get in the other vehicle and center it
so the helicopter winch picks you up. It will
stay there until you shoot it enough until the
soldier will have to abort. At the slightest
movement of lifting off, get back in the vehicle
before the copter gets away! you will be
traveling with the copter, but it will head into
a restricted area. For even more fun, enter the
invincible cheat, then get out of the car (you
can't get out with tanks or APCs).
Note: Sometimes, the person will reel in the
winch before picking up your vehicle, but keep
trying!

Fun In The Briefing Rooms

When you go to each of the factions headquarters
buildings, you will talk to the gaurd and he will
let you inside. Once inside you listen to the
leading guy talk about your next mission. If you
wait until they stop talking and walk around,
there will be cool things you can do in the room.
such as in the mafia headquarters before the jack
of spades mission you can go over to the guy on
the couch and hit him! or in the Allied place you
can make cofee!

Rocket Cars

(Note: For this cheat you will need a NK Scout Car or a civilian car.) Equip a C4 and get near the car. Then place and run. Make sure you're far back so you can see it. Then BLAST OFF!

Deliver Things

Turn on your system. If you are like some people
(not me): you have your computer in your bedroom
with your system and TV, playing now, then either
drive to the M*A*S*H* or call a Medivac. Turn
left. You should appear in a little SK/NK battle.
Get some mulah by killing the NKs (this will also
make it easier). Find the white delivery flatbed
truck. Found it? Good. Order/hijack a helicopter
and load barrels, crates, etc. into the bed with
the winch (be careful). Get out of the copter and
in the truck. Remember where you left your copter
and transport the stuff to various places. Be
sure to take the turns carefully to avoid
possibly losing cargo. This will not earn you
anything (cash, faction, etc.), unless
you "mistakenly" hit a NK or listening post or
get a treasure, WMD, etc. It doesn't unlock
anything, but it's fun to do

Taxi

This is a little thing I like to do in the South
province. Go to the Mafia HQ and hijack a Metro
Bus. Go to Pyongyang Airport, get in the parking
lot in that building, and check the time. Why?
Say it's 9:08 AM. Honk the horn a lot and make a
fake announcement: "Bus 908A now boarding from
Hangar (i.e.) 15." "Bus 908A now departing from
hangar 15." You don't get faction increase or
cash, it's just fun to do.

Fix Your Helicopter And Reload It

If your helicopter is too damaged or run out of
ammo or you want to reload your missles. Go to
the Mafia headquartes in the south province(not
tested in the north province) and right on top of
the Mafia Gararge theres a heli pad. Land your
helicopter there and exit(go to the little house
thing on the roof and exit with Triangle). Then
get a little far away from where your helicopter
is and then go back (go to the entrance on the
bottom,enter with Triangle). Your helicopter
should be full of health and your ammo is
reloaded with all your missles.
(only tested on the south province, it will
probably work in the north province too i guess)

Alarms

Blow up the alarm. If the enemies sound the
alarm, do not run up to the alarm to turn it off.
Just blow it up. They already know that you are
there.

Accelerate Faster

While in a car, hold R1 + Square + X to do a
burnout and accelerate faster.

SKU Listening Post Rewards

Collect the indicated number of SKU Listening
Post bounties to get the corresponding reward:

Saving Ammunition

Do not waste ammunition. Some missions involve
blowing up artillery, or just have artillery in
the area. Instead of blowing it up, you can kill
the man inside and use the artillery yourself.
This can save you from running around to each
individual artillery cannon, as you can shoot
them from a distance.

Free Medivac

To skip out on paying the $10,000 when you warp
to the Medivac, save the game. Load the game and
you will appear at the Medivac, but not have to
pay the $10,000.

YAH-56 Gunship

This is an incredibly powerful helicopter gunship
that is armed with rapid-fire 30mm cannon
(grenade launcher), anti-air missiles, anti-tank
missiles, and dumb-fire rockets. You must have an
anti-armor rifle and a RPG or anti tank rocket.
Grenades work somewhat, but are not recommended.
You cannot use an anti air. Find one flying (try
the North Korean Allied MASH, when you complete
the second ACE contract you will "unlock" this).
Once you are there, find a YAH-56 Gunship with
the binoculars. Then, go to it and make sure it
is over flat land. Take out your RPG or your anti
tank rocket and shoot above it. It will fly down
slightly. Then, take out your anti armor rifle
and shoot the pilot (located the back seat of the
helicopter). If you cannot see him through the
glass, shoot under the cockpit. Once he is dead,
you will have about $25, 000 depleted and your
helicopter should land on the ground safely. Try
again if it falls on its side or something else
happens. Do not be afraid of the tail rotor. If
it is half way in a rock, it does not effect it.
Note: This strategy can be used with any
helicopter.

Safe Number Card Capture

Use the following trick to get a number card
captured for the full bounty and avoid losing
money from Anti-Air Armor shooting down your
vehicle or an enemy tank accidentally killing
your target. Do an aerial recon, Get a N.K Scout
helicopter and get disguised as a N.K. Fly over
the area that the number card is located to do
recon on where the Anti-Air Armor, enemy tanks,
and APCs are located. Once you noted where they
are, you can now execute your plan by taking out
the Anti-Air first, then the enemy tanks and
APCs. Be careful with rockets -- do not fire too
close to the number card. Land in a safe place,
take down the number card, and call for
extraction.

Free Ammunition And Repairs

Choose a mission. Park a damaged vehicle in the
base where the mission is located, accept the
contract, then immediately cancel it. Select "No"
at the "Retry" menu. Your vehicle will be
repaired with full ammunition at no cost.

Alternate Costumes

After you have captured or killed the Ace of
Diamonds, you will be sent to the northern MASH.
There should be a tent by the man who takes you
between the north and southern areas. Once you
find it, your character will be able to switch
costumes.

Playground Of Destruction Mode

Successfully complete the game, then verify
General Song (the Ace of Spades). Save the game
when prompted. Load that saved game to start the
game again with all money and support items
previously collected.

Monument Rewards

Collect the indicated number of Monument bounties
to get the corresponding reward:

10: North Korean ZSU 57 Anti Air Delivery
20: $250,000

National Treasure Rewards

Collect the indicated number of National Treasure
bounties to get the corresponding reward:

Easy Money

If you are low on cash and need a quick boost,
hijack some cars from the North Koreans and line
them up so that they are all close together. The
bigger they are, the more money you will get. For
example, line up a group of Sungri Scouts. Take a
C4 charge on the car that is in the middle. Blow
it up and a chain reaction will blow up all the
cars and give you a major cash boost. You can
also steal cars and sell them to the Mafia at
their garage by Mafia HQ. Each car is worth a
different amount of money.

Blueprint Rewards

Collect the indicated number of Blueprint
bounties to get the corresponding reward:

Helicopter Locations

* UH60 Transport - The $ Challenge southwest of the DMZ (the AN HQ is in the DMZ area on the map).
* UH60 Transport - Northeast of the DMZ. This chopper becomes available after the Ace Of Clubs contract is resolved successfully.
* LHX Chopper - Inchon. This chopper is available after the South Korean mission involving the missile trucks at Inchon is resolved successfully.
* WZ-9 Chopper - Pyongyang Airport. This chopper is available after the Chinese mission
involving Nampo is resolved successfully.
North Province:
* NK Transport - North of Changsong Train station's eliptical road there is a small rise
next to the restricted airspace with a ZSU and a chopper on it.
* NK Gunship - East of Changsong Train station there is an eliptical road. Head east from it and a small airbase can be found with several gunships and SAM carriers.
* Coaxial Gunship - This is a unique chopper that can only be found during the second Russian mission while verifying the Spades. The temple northwest of the Industrial Zone has the chopper, along with one of the mission's objectives.
* AN Gunship - This takes a little work. You also need a sniper rifle. Head to the east
entrance of the Kusong MASH and climb the surrounding hills. A random set of gunships and transport choppers hover over the MASH (if you do not see a gunship, you can save/load your game). Snipe the pilot of a gunship as it passes over the MASH; the resulting accident will usually leave the gunship in barely flyable condition, and cost
you $25,000 (for killing the AN pilot).

Unlimited Health

Indiana Jones Costume

Go to PDA factions screen and enter
left, left, right, right, up, up, down, down. Then,
exit the PDA and if you did the code right the
screen should remain black for a few seconds.

Add $1,000,000

Go to the PDA's faction status screen and enter
the following on the D-pad: RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT, UP,
UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT. A soft click should confirm
the code's activation.

All Missions And Bonus Character

Left(3), Down(2), Right, Up(2)

Extra Money

At the PDA factions screen, press Right, Down,
Left, Up(2), Left, Down, Right. If you entered the
code correctly, you will hear the sound of a click.

All Rewards

At the PDA factions screen, press Down(4), Up,
Left, Right(2) to unlock all shop items. If you
entered the code correctly, you will hear the
sound of a click. Note: If this code is enabled
during an Ace Contract, you will be able to buy
helicopters.

Han Solo Skin

Unlock All Unlockable Skins

Note: This Code will allow you to use any skins
as long as you have this code in. At the PDA
factions screen, click Right(2), Left(2), Up(2),
Down(2), Up, Right, Left, Down(2), Left, Right,
Up, Down(2), Up(2), Left(2), Right(2).

All Missions And Bonus Characters

At PDA fractions screen, press right (2), left
(2), up (2), down (2), up, right, left, down (2),
up(2), left (2) right (2). you should hear
a 'click' sound. Have fun! :P

Doctor

Play As Civilian

Play As Han Solo

To play as the infamous smuggler from Star Wars,
on the PDA faction screen press left, left,
right, right, up, down, up, up. If you entered it
correctly you will hear the sound of a click.

Play As Mafia Heavy

Go to PDA factions screen and press, Left(3), Down(2), Right, Up(2).

Reset All Factions To Neutral

At the PDA factions screen, click Up(4), Down
(2), Right, Left.

Doctor Skin

At the PDA factions screen, press Left(2), Right
(2), Down, Up, Down(2) to unlock the Doctor skin.
If you entered the code correctly, you will hear
the sound of a click. This code cannot be enabled
until the correct amount of rewards have been
collected to unlock it.

Buford Skin

At the PDA factions screen, press Left(2), Right
(2), Up, Down(3) to unlock the Buford skin. If
you entered the code correctly, you will hear the
sound of a click. This code cannot be enabled
until all of South Korea's Spade Contracts have
been completed.

Hans Solo Skin

At the PDA factions screen, press Left(2), Right
(2), Up, Down, Up(2) to unlock the Hans Solo
skin. If you entered the code correctly, you will
hear the sound of a click. This code cannot be
enabled until the correct amount of rewards have
been collected to unlock it.

Infinite Health

At the PDA factions screen, press Up, Down, Up,
Down, Left, Right, Left, Right. Alternately,
press Up, Down, Up, Left(2), Right(3) at the PDA
factions screen. If you entered the code
correctly, you will hear the sound of a click.
Repeat this code to disable its effect. The
effect of this code will end after the current
contract is completed. Note: If this code is
enabled while in a vehicle, it will also have
infinite health.

Allied Pilot Skin

At the PDA factions screen, press Left(2), Right
(2), Up, Down, Up, Down to unlock the Allied
Pilot skin. If you entered the code correctly,
you will hear the sound of a click. This code
cannot be enabled until the correct amount of
rewards have been collected to unlock it.

All Shop Items

At the PDA factions screen, press Down(4), Up,
Left, Right(2) to unlock all shop items. If you
entered the code correctly, you will hear the
sound of a click.

Ace Of Diamonds Skin

At the PDA factions screen, press Left(2), Right
(2), Down(2), Up(2) to unlock the Ace Of
Diamonds skin. If you entered the code
correctly, you will hear the sound of a click.
This code cannot be enabled until the correct
amount of rewards have been collected to unlock
it.

Unlimited Health

Note: This cheat needs to be reentered after each
loading screen. Any after-effects, bugs, or
glitches that may corrupt your game are currently
not known at this time. Saving your game with this
cheat on may result in it being on permanently.
On the PDA's faction screen, enter UP, DOWN, UP,
DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT on the D-Pad. You
should hear a click that signifies the code is
active. The merc will be invulnerable to all
sources of damage (you may have to Medivac if you
fall into deep water). This also applies to the
current vehicle the merc happens to be operating
at the time.

Infinite Ammo

Note: Use this cheat with care, as the possibility of it altering your save file exists.
Go to the PDA's faction status screen and enter the following on the D-pad: RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT. A soft click should confirm the code's activation.

Unlockables

Chopper Ride At Kirin-Do

After the cutscene of your character landing on
Kirin-Do, quickly turn around and hijack the
transport chopper. Though it is not shielded from
radiation, it makes getting to the Type-07
prototype and General Chang a lot easier.

Alternate Costumes

After you have captured or killed the Ace of
Diamonds, you will be sent to the northern MASH.
There should be a tent by the man who takes you
between the north and southern areas. Once you
find it, your character will be able to switch
costumes.

Playground Of Destruction Mode

Successfully complete the game, then verify
General Song (the Ace of Spades). Save the game
when prompted. Load that saved game to start the
game again with all money and support items
previously collected.

Cheat Weapons Crate

Verify all of the cards in the deck of 52 to
unlock the Cheat Weapons Crate in the Merchant of
Menance shop for $800,000. The Cheat Weapons Crate
contains three different super powered weapons
(the Street Sweeper, Pocket Artillery, and the
Portable Airstrike). Note: The Cheat Weapons Crate
can also be unlocked with the "All shop items" code.

Blueprint Rewards

Collect the indicated number of Blueprint bounties to get the corresponding reward:

Easter eggs

We have no easter eggs for Mercenaries yet. If you have any unlockables please submit them.

Glitches

Helicopter Glitch

Order/Hijack a helicopter. Find a clearing
surrounded by trees and land. Do not, I repeat DO
NOT exit the helicopter, but hold Square until the
blades stop. The trees will still be blowing in
the wind.